Leave home? It's quite a scary thought. I'm not the most independent person and that's the result. When you're always surrounded by people it becomes quite normal. - Rupert Grint I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security. - Patricia Heaton There's no such thing as an independent person. - Peter Jennings The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality. - Herbert Read You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true. - Herbert Read

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. - William Cobbett Whether he loved her or not didn't change how she felt about him. She loved him independent and regardless of whether he loved her. - Sarah Beth Durst I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone. - Adriana Lima Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous. - Thomas Szasz I'm independent and strong, but sometimes...just sometimes, it's nice to be taken case of. It's nice to be made to feel like a lady - Samantha Towle

I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent. - Charles Evers So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments. - Uri Geller There's a problem with political polling in that you have so much pressure to do what your client wants you to do and say what your client wants you to say. I've never felt that pressure. I am independent of the political parties. - Frank Luntz I voted against my party with some frequency, because of my independence. I've just got to remind Missourians that I am independent and that I try to call them like I see them, and sometimes my party is wrong on some things. - Claire Mccaskill

Jo's breath gave out here, and wrapping her head in the paper, she bedewed her little story with a few natural tears, for to be independent and earn the praise of those she loved were the dearest wishes of her heart, and this seemed to be the first step toward that happy end. - Louisa May Alcott I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all. - Lauren Bacall To reason with the non-Christian in a fashion purporting to be independent of God or independent of reliance upon revelation is to honor the unregenerate's notions of "evidence" and "verification" as legitimate and correct. However, for the Christian, it is Scripture that governs *every* aspect of his life, even his concept of "evidence" and the way he reasons with skeptics. - Greg L Bahnsen Th...